Beacon starts dewatering of 4-way after HC intervention

Srinagar:  Beacon authorities have started dewatering the four-lane Srinagar-Baramulla-Uri road, after a three-year delay.Pertinently, the High Court while intervening in the matter, issued a stay order regarding the cancellation of a contract for supply and stacking earth for four-lane Srinagar-Baramulla-Uri road. The contractor, whose contract for supply and stacking earth for four-lane Srinagar-Baramulla-Uri road was cancelled by the Beacon, had rejected the ‘delay’ claims by the concerned authorities while accusing them of ‘prejudice’. “Patches of site available at present are water logged and the Beacon authorities were doing nothing to dewater it. As a citizen of this place, my conscious does not permit me to execute the specified work as such I requested the authorities to dewater and preparing site for public good. Instead they cancelled my contract,” the contractor said. “If the earth is laid over the unprepared surface/marshy land, the same cannot be consolidated and the formation will become dumpy at the end,” he had said.The contractor also termed the delay claims as “baseless”. “The revenue authorities failed to handover land to the Beacon and the contractor can only execute work once it is allotted to him. The claims are baseless. Even the news about delay on part of the authorities in allotting land to the Beacon authorities for the four-lane project was carried in wide section of press last year (January 2010).